The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-11

ar. He SAYS: 81 deal in Confederate
Money and handle great deal Of the dead
! cJrrencv About two weeks ago young
man called at my office and asked me now
| | bought and sold Confederate money. l
told him bought it at half a cent on any
| denomination and sold FOR &c. He bought
quite a number of bills, amounting 10
several thousand dollars. Yesterday
another Fayette county man stepped into
my Office and offered the same roll OF
| bills, and was greatly surprised when l
told him what | would give him. de
| then told me that a young man had
sold the bills to his mother for zoe. on the
dollar and that they had cost her Sl,OOO
The first young man who had called on me
was the old lady'S Son-in-law, and he had
given the bills TO young man TO sell to his
mother-in-law, and then told her that i
would give 25c. on the dollar for them. The
old lady saw a chance for a speculation and
fell into the trap. The young man who
sold the bills and the son-in-law divided The
profits, making something like $500 apiece. ."
1t is not an improbable supposition that the
old lady will proceed TO get in her work on
her treacherous son-ln-law.
An accident happened at Stubs mills, in
Dublin, on Friday, which resulted in the
death of an S-year-old child. MeSsrs.
Lamb & Colley have the mill rented, and
i'll addition to the grist and planer, are run
ming a custom gin, and are kept very busy
attending to the three machines. Mr. Col
ley is a widower, his wife having died some
two years ago leaving him with the care
of four little boys. One of them followed
his mother some time ago, and Friday the
smallest one, while the ginner was out Of
the room, attempted TO raise the gin breast
to unchoke it, and it being very heavy for
him, put up his leg as if to rest
the breast upon his knee until he
could take better hold, and had his foot
caught by the saws and was drawn up UNI
der the gin and was terribly lacerated The
ponderous machinery was stopped, and
when he was taken out and carried to his
house, a short distance away, it was decided
by Drs. johnson, Green and Hicks, who
had been summoned, that an amputation of
his leg was necessary. 1t was discovered
also that his arms and his whole body were
more Or less cut by the saws. Chloroform
was administered, and his leg was ampu-
tated above the knee, DR.. II. V. johnson
performing the operation. The child stood
it with the nerve of manhood, but after it
was over cried piteously TO his father to
come and make them put my leg back.
The doctors expressed the opinion that he
was too badly wounded to survive and at
night he breathed his last. This is the
second death that has occurred at this mill
this year; the other having been that of
Thad Kyler, the colored fireman.
While alone in the engine room he got
caught in the shaft somehow, and, when
discovered, his fragments were scattered in
every part of the room. Since the erection
of this mill no less than six deaths from &C
cident have occurred, besides a number of
miraculous escapes, among which may be
mentioned that of Caswell Hester, who was
caught in a shaft and in a moment had
every shred of clothing torn from his body,
including shoes and socks, and was dropped
to the floor without so much as hair being
injured.